Nobel prize season kicks off today
AFP, Stockholm
The 2004 Nobel Prize season opens today with the announcement of the prize for Medicine, kicking off a series of coveted awards culminating in the prestigious honours for Literature and for Peace. Scandinavian capitals Stock-holm and Oslo are abuzz with speculation, and a feeling emerged that the Literature prize could go to a woman this year, while efforts to limit nuclear build-up and proliferation may be rewarded by the Peace award. The Peace prize, the only honours to be bestowed in Oslo and not in Stockholm, went to Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi in 2003. There is no clear favourite ahead of this year's Peace announcement, scheduled for Friday, but if those tipping the nuclear sector are correct, then it may be the turn of the International Atomic Energy Commission and its chief, Mohamed ElBaradei.
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